One evening I was going back from a supermarket. As I 1my car, I noticed that some person came and stood beside me. He was homeless. I 2that he will ask me for money, but he did not do that. He only said: "Your car is very 3."

After several moments of 4, I replied: "Thanks." And then the inner(内心的) voice 5to me, "Ask him if he needs help." After a short 6 I asked him if he needed any help. His respond was7, I will never forget those simple three words "Don't we all?"

    It was a true 8 to me. I needed help, just as those 9. I had money and a place to sleep, but I 10 needed help. Then I opened my wallet and gave him enough11 to get him to have a shelter for a day.

    12I understood that no matter how much money, achievements, luxury(奢侈)things do we have, we all need help. And on the other hand, no matter howpoor you are, how many 13 problems you have, you still might offer your help to others, you still might be giving. 14 it's just a nice word, it can be 15 to other person.

    Maybe that man was just a homeless stranger, but to me he was 16that. Maybe he was a man sent to 17me that there is one thing, among all other18, which is very important and cannot be 19for every person. Actually, it is a true 20 and it is called Giving.

To me, kindness is a chosen lifestyle. In my classroom, I tell my1that every day they are offered a choice. They can't choose what happens to them, but they can choose how they2to it. Kindness is a3. And it is a lifestyle. It isn't something that we just choose once in a while— it is a(n)4to live our lives.

    My father was hospitalized with leukemia(白血病) when I was in college. He didn't choose the cancer.5, he chose how to react to it. To this day, seventeen years later, the nurses6write my mother letters. The7? It was because of my father's kindness to others even when he was8against the disease. He made kindness a lifestyle.

    And I want to be 9him. Every day as a teacher, I try and teach my students the kindness lifestyle. Just recently, I turned 40 and a friend gave me 40 individual dollar bills. She challenged me to do something10with the money. I gladly accepted the challenge.

    I gave 40 of my students one dollar each and challenged them to make a(n)11. What happened? My Twitter and Instagram were 12with pictures of kids making the world a better place. One girl bought a dollar store stuffed animal(填充玩具). It was13that kids should have made a difference when they were given the 14.

    Living the kindness lifestyle 15 every day, every opportunity. As a high school teacher, I see16everywhere. In the hallways, in the lunchroom, in the locker room,17words and gossip fill the air. So I started a hashtag (标签) to18positive gossip called “third party compliments(称赞)”. The idea is that you talk about people behind their backs, but do it in a 19way. In that way, the gossip that gets back to students makes their day instead of getting them down.

    Our kindness lifestyle leaves a footprint on others, and let us be the movers and kindness-makers who20a better, more beautiful world.

    For five years, Claire Lomas hasn't been able to walk or feel her legs. But that hasn't1her. She was 2a professional horse rider. But in 2007, she was thrown off her horse. The3paralyzed her from the chest down. She spent all her time in a 4 at least until January, 2012. That's when she started5again, thanks to a ₤ 75, 000 bionic suit known as the Re walk.

    “It's6after five years of sitting down to be back on my7 she said, “and it's fully weight-bearing and I can walk in it as well. "The Re Walk and two canes would8her when she wanted to walk. But it's not9. Each day, when she started, she could10only 30 steps. Every11was a challenge, and because she couldn't 12 where she was standing, she 13feared falling over. She had bigger14though. Lomas decided to set out to walk the entire length of the London Marathon.

    She started, alongside 35,0001516 days ago, but today, May 8th, 2012, in the shadow of Buckingham Palace, she16—to the screams of thousands of fans who came out to support her.

    "It's a moment I'm going to17 for the rest of my life,” she told the BBC. “The support here has been so amazing—I didn't18it here like this. I couldn't believe it when I19this morning in the taxi to start, and I thought it was just a 20day in London. Someone told me they're all there for me.''

    As my husband, Doug, stood on the busy New York city street trying to stop a taxi, I tried to protect my daughter from the cold December wind and rain. I put my head down to kiss her tiny face.

    1and wet, my husband gave up his attempt to flag down a taxi. I knew the2. Just after her first birthday, we were told our daughter Katie has a3 brain illness. Since that moment, Doug and I felt like runners in a marathon race where the finish line kept4. We knew Katie was running out of 5It had taken months before we finally had a name for the 6 but we were told only a few of specialists in the world knew how to7 it. Now, as we finally found a brilliant doctor to8 our girl, we were in a strange 9in the cold rain.

    Just at the moment, a middle-aged woman pulled over and said, “Pardon me? May I offer you a(n)10?” Before we could say anything, she continued, “It's really no11 for me. Just get in.”It was then that I noticed her thick Irish accent, which 12 me up like hot soup. We simply said, “Thanks! Roosevelt Hospital,  please,” as we got in her car for the ride.

    “Are you going 13 the baby?”she asked us. I nodded my head, holding back my.14. At the hospital, we 15her a dozen times for the ride. As the woman hugged me, I16her face was wet with tears. She promised to17 for us before she left.

    After three more visits to New York and two more 18 operations, Erica is cured. But the19 of the Irish Angel still rang as a constant reminder of a tiny ray of light that appeared in our20 days.

    In the palace of Rubyland there was a thief. No one knew who it was, but the only thing known about him was that he1 in the palace.

    The King decided to 2 who it was, and he asked for help from a wise dwarf who was famed for his 3. The dwarf spent some days there, watching and listening, until there was another 4 —another ruby(红宝石)was stolen. The next day after breakfast the wise dwarf made all the 5 inhabitants meet up together in the same room. The dwarf 6them all one by one.

    But suddenly, one of the 7 began coughing and crying, writhing and crying, and finally he 8 to the floor. The dwarf explained that the food they had just eaten was 9, and the only antidote(解药) for this poison was hidden inside the ruby that had been stolen the 10 night. And he expected that only the thief would be able to 11 himself, because the poison was 12 quick working.

    Gradually the coughs and groans spread around the whole room, and 13 took hold of all present. All except one person. A footman quickly 14 over to where he had hidden the ruby, from where he took the ruby, opened it and 15the strange liquid inside to save his own life.

In fact, the gardener was one of the dwarf's 16, and the poison was just a kind of potion(药水)prepared by the dwarf which could cause a few 17 pains for a short while. Then the footman was 18 by the guards and taken immediately to court.

    The King, grateful, generously rewarded the dwarf. When he asked the dwarf what his 19 was, the dwarf smiled and said: "I only try to get the person 20 the truth to reveal that truth. Anyone can deceive everyone, but no one can deceive themselves."

    John's parents acquired the washer when he was a small boy. It happened during World War Ⅱ. His family never 1 a washing machine and, since gasoline was expensive, they could not 2 trips to the laundry several miles away. Keeping clothes 3 became a problem for young John's household.

    A family friend joined the army, and his wife 4 to go with him. John's family 5 to store their furniture while they were away. To the family's 6, the friend suggested they use their Bendix. So this is how they 7 the washer.

    Young John helped with the washing, and across the years he 8 a love for the old, green Bendix. But 9 the war ended. When the friends came to take it back, John grew terribly 10. His mother 11 him and said. "You must remember, that machine 12 belonged to us in the first place. That we ever got to use it at all was a gift. So, instead of being mad at it being taken 13, let's use this 14 to be grateful that we had it at all."

    The lesson turned out 15. Years later, John watched his eight-year-old daughter die a slow and painful death of leukemia (白血病). Though he 16 for months with her death, John could not begin getting over from the 17 until he remembered the old Bendix.

    His daughter was a 18. When he realized the simple fact, everything changed. He could now begin recovering from the death of his daughter. He started to see her as a marvelous gift that he was fortunate enough to 19 for a time. He felt 20. He found strength and recovery. He knew he could get through the valley of loss.